BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Wright uses factoids extensively ( and occasionally incorrectly ; one recent example ( September 2012 ) defined a Googol as the number 1 followed by < i > one million </ i > zeroes.

Following the departure of Steve Rider from the BBC, Lineker, who is a keen recreational golfer with a handicap of four, became the new presenter for the BBC's golf coverage.

Starting in 1989, Palin appeared as presenter in a series of travel programmes made for the BBC.

In 1969-70 he was presenter of The Golden Silents on BBC TV, which attempted authentic showings of silent films, without the commentaries with which they were usually shown on television before then.

After the 1956 England tour, Benaud stayed behind in London to take a BBC presenter training course.

He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of Points of View, a BBC Television programme in which viewers ' letters criticising or praising the BBC were broadcast.

* Phil Mercer, radio presenter on the BBC

That same year Sykes signed a contract as scriptwriter and variety show presenter for the newly formed independent television company ATV, while continuing to write and perform for the BBC.

BBC presenter Richard Dimbleby, who broadcast the president's funeral from Washington, said that the regular programme was scrapped when news of the assassination was received and that the programme was a good expression of the sorrow felt in Britain.

* Owen Thomas, BBC presenter

* Cerrie Burnell, Actress, singer, playwright, and television presenter for the BBC children's channel CBeebies.

Caesar then went on to get his first " paid gig " on the Rod Lucas Show on BBC Radio Kent and shortly afterwards they both moved to the newly created Invicta Radio and, in a similar manner to BBC Radio 1 presenter Steve Wright, copied a style from American DJ Rick Dees that has subsequently become known worldwide as the ' Zoo Format '.

* Michael Clarke ( radio presenter ), Station Manager of Lisburn's 98FM and BBC broadcaster

* Craig Doyle ( BBC and RTÉ presenter )

* Maryam Moshiri ( BBC News presenter )

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** Previously co-produced and served as presenter in a documentary for BBC television called In Search of the Spirit.

* Yan Wong, presenter BBC Bang Goes the Theory

In 2006, the BBC Somerset presenter Adam Thomas, in a BBC One regional programme Inside Out West, investigated why Avon refuses to die.

* Eddie Waring ( 1910 – 1986 ), rugby league coach, commentator and television presenter famous for hosting the BBC game show, It's a Knockout.

Taking part in the programme along with Monkhouse were Leslie Thomas, the author of The Virgin Soldiers, and the BBC Radio 2 presenter John Dunn.

During this period, the band teamed up with producer Mark Cunningham on the first-ever BBC Children In Need single, a cover of David Bowie's " Heroes ", released in 1986 under the name of The County Line.

A full three minute version of the countdown music was made available on BBC News Online and David Lowe's own after a remix on 16 May 2006.

* Played by Alan David in the final episode of the BBC sitcom Goodnight Sweetheart,

Clive Anderson has appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Unbelievable Truth hosted by David Mitchell.

The implications of these findings for the conservation of giraffes were summarised by David Brown, lead author of the study, who told BBC News: " Lumping all giraffes into one species obscures the reality that some kinds of giraffe are on the brink.

Chapman and John Cleese wrote professionally for the BBC during the 1960s, primarily for David Frost, but also for Marty Feldman.

Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

One Foot in the Grave was a BBC television sitcom series written by David Renwick.

* 17-Dr. David Kelly, 59 ( suicide ), former United Nations weapons inspector who was accused of leaking information to the BBC about Britain's dossier on Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction.

In 2009 the BBC broadcast Cruickshank on Kew: The Garden That Changed the World, a history of the relationship between Kew Gardens, David Attenborough's kingdom of plants 3D ( Aired on Sky Atlantic, and Sky 3D ' June 2012 '), and the British Empire.

* David Willey, " La Scala faces uncertain future ", BBC News online, 12 November 2005

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

He left the corporation in 1971 after David Coleman was installed as the BBC's top commentator, his final BBC commentary being on the 1971 European Cup final between Ajax and Panathinaikos at Wembley Stadium.

In the 1950s, David Attenborough and a BBC film crew brought back footage of the " land divers " ( Sa: ) of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood.

On 24 May 2008 BBC Radio 4 broadcast a radio adaptation of Dr. No. Actor Toby Stephens, who played Die Another Day Bond villain Gustav Graves, played James Bond, while Dr. No was played by David Suchet.

While on Rising Damp, he also took the eponymous lead in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, adapted by David Nobbs from his own Reginald Perrin comic novels and aired on the BBC.

Jason was cast for the role of Lance-Corporal Jack Jones in the Jimmy Perry and David Croft BBC comedy Dad's Army.

David Jason appeared in the BBC comedy series Hugh and I, which starred Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott as two friends who lived together in south London.

David Hatch ( who went on to executive positions within the BBC, including the top position of Controller of BBC Radio 4 ).

* David Copperfield ( 1974 TV serial ), a BBC TV serial that has aired on PBS